Sandal shop owner with a customer

Item Description

Title / Supplied: Sandal shop owner with a customer

Compiler

Wolcott, Katherine

Source Document

Extent: 1 photomechanical print

Date Created: 1909

Description

The Japanese Sandal is known as a "Geta" and was the most common piece of footwear throughout most of Japan's history. Geta can have varying amount of pegs, or none at all. When they don't have pegs, they are sometimes known as "Zori."

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Preferred citation

Sandal shop owner with a customer,
Album of Japanese Photographs2006.3.85LA,
Wolcott Collection, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont,
http://cdi.uvm.edu/collections/item/jta018b (accessed March 31, 2015)